There's no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing, too / Stanley Fish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fish, Stanley Eugene, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech--United States.

Academic freedom.

Academic freedom--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contains the author's investigations of issues in literary and legal theory, offering insights into diverse matters ranging from politics and education to literature and culture.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction: ""That's Not Fair""; 2. The Common Touch, or, One Size Fits All; Preface to Chapters 3 through 7; 3. The Empire Strikes Back; 4. Reverse Racism, or, How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black; 5. You Can Only Fight Discrimination with Discrimination; 6. Bad Company; 7. Speaking in Code, or, How to Turn Bigotry and Ignorance into Moral Principles; 8. There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too; 9. Jerry Falwell's Mother, or, What's the Harm?; 10. Liberalism Doesn't Exist; 11. The Law Wishes to Have a Formal Existence

12. Play of Surfaces: Theory and the Law13. Almost Pragmatism: The Jurisprudence of Richard Posner, Richard Rorty, and Ronald Dworkin; 14. Being Interdisciplinary Is So Very Hard to Do; 15. The Young and the Restless; 16. Milton's Career and the Career of Theory; 17. Milton, Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour; 18. The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos; Appendix. Fish Tales: A Conversation with ""The Contemporary Sophist""; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772655-0

0-19-983928-X

1-280-52778-1

0-19-802419-3

1-4294-0607-0

OCLC:

437173432